Group name: Manchester and Salford Ramblers
This group is a part of Greater Manchester & High Peak Area.
Our activities include:
Short and easy walks, Path maintenance
Our group helps local people enjoy walking and protect the places we all love to walk. We offer a varied programme of regular walks taking advantage of the excellent walking country in and around Manchester and Salford. You’re very welcome to try walking with us, or to get involved in looking after paths and green spaces and opening up new places to explore.
Walks are held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Monday walks are short and start at 11.00am. All Tuesday and Saturday walks start at 10.30 unless otherwise stated and are normally 5- 6 miles, but we have added some longer walks into our programme - so please check details carefully. In the summer we also have some evening walks.
Walks are normally near public transport so we can include as many people as possible.
As well as walks, we offer regular social activities and we also have a couple of weekends away each year in a Youth Hostel.
Details of our upcoming walks are on the right and for an outline of the full walks programme and details of our other activities, including our very popular socials, please visit our web site: http://www.manchesterandsalfordramblers.org.uk/
There are also more details, pictures and reports on our Facebook page.
Consultation for RHS Bridgewater Walking and Cycling Links.
The RHS Garden Bridgewater project aims to revive the gardens of the historic 154-acre Worsley New Hall estate and to create jobs, community and learning opportunities and represents one of the largest gardening projects in Europe at this time
And the very good news is that walking access to the new RHS, especially from the canal will be significantly improved. The details are open for consultation and comments are needed by 24th January.
Please take a look at this, and send in your support and comments. We will do so as a Group but lots of individual emails to them will be helpful. Details on how to comment from the web link below. Also details of two consultations on Tuesday 21 January 2020 & Thursday 23 January.
https://www.salford.gov.uk/rhs-walking-cycling
They will need to get funding from the GM Mayors Walking and Cycling Challenge Fund, this short consultation has two aims: 1) to seek comments on the details of the proposal, but more significantly; 2) so that they can demonstrate support for the proposals to strengthen their hand as they prepare the full business case for funding.
Stepping Out for Carers
Stepping Out for Carers is a project being run nationally with The Ramblers. Our Manchester and Salford group are part of this project and some of our members were involved in a video filmed on a Heaton Park carers walk to promote the walks and the project. The 2-minute video can be viewed from https://carerssteppingout.co.uk/social/
Check out this blog from one of the Manchester carers https://carerssteppingout.co.uk/blog/
Green Trails in Manchester and Salford
Our Group devised The Manchester Green Trail, which is a 60 mile route around Manchester, linking parks, green spaces, canal towpaths, riverside walks and along quiet streets. It is made up of 14 short walks so that everyone in Manchester will have a walk within easy reach of where they live.
For more details please see the special page.
We also establsuhed The Salford Trail, which is a long distance walk of about 50 miles entirely within the boundaries of the City of Salford. It was officially opened by Ramblers President, Stuart Maconie in May 2017. Again for more details, see the special page.
Greater Manchester Walking Voice
GM Walking Voice is an informal network of people and organisations in Greater Manchester who are working to raise the profile of walking and enable more people to walk for travel and for leisure.
It’s steering group includes representatives of The Ramblers, Transport for Greater Manchester, Living Streets, City of Trees, Sustrans, GM Moving and The Christie Foundation Trust.
To join the GM Walking Voice, click on the link below and scroll down to enter your details:
The website also aims to be a platform to raise awareness of walking groups and routes across Greater Manchester but also provide lots of resources to support walkable communities and information about courses and events.
There is also information on the 2020 Greater Manchester Walking Festival. https://gmwalking.co.uk/festival/